Gupta’s keynote presentation will take place on Friday 11 May at 18.00 at Camp Pixelache 2012 main venue Arbis.

As part of Camp Pixelache and in connection with Vinay Gupta‘s visit, we are organising a talkoot event on Friday 11 May from 12:00 to 18:00. The aim of this ‘construction work party’ is to learn together the practical skills of how to build Hexayurts. We are planning to construct a temporary sauna structure for pixelache and related events, but our hope is to get different Hexayurts implanted in as many different contexts as possible. For this reason, we hope that various kinds of people will join to construct their own Hexayurts!

The Hexayurt shelter can cost less than a relief tent, is designed to be manufactured anywhere in the world at any scale, from local materials, as Free hardware, to house humans in need. The Hexayurt Project maintains the designs and makes them freely available.

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This year’s Camp Pixelache opens on Friday 11 May with a keynote lecture byVinay Gupta(The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution). Gupta is one of the world’s leading thinkers on infrastructure theory and managing geopoltical risks as well as an environmentalist and a sustainability activist. He is known for example for developingHexayurt, the free/open source emergency shelter and writing the bookThe Future We Deserve. Read more about Gupta’s inspiring thoughts on cooperation and democracy inhere.

Gupta’s keynote presentation will take place on Friday 11 May at 18.00 at Camp Pixelache 2012 main...

Camp Pixelache keynote speaker Vinay Gupta took some time of his busy schedule and aswered some questions by journalist Anna-Sofia Joro from Finnish newspaper Voima. Part of this interview is published in Finnish in Voima's issue 4/2012. Here you can read the whole interview, in which Vinay Gupta shares his inspirational thoughts on cooperation, democracy and of course the Hexayurts. 1. Welcome to Helsinki in May! Have you been in Helsinki or Finland before? If yes, what's you impression of the country and people? I have two close Finnish friends, Anu and Arto, who are both engineers. They...

This spring, 11-12 May, we make a more compact edition of Pixelache Helsinki Festival called 'Camp Pixelache', atArbis adult education centre, with thethe theme of “Do It With Others” (D.I.W.O.).How can artists, makers, cultural producers, researchers and activists work collaboratively with each other and audiences, to create new co-production models for artefacts/events with sustainability as the core goal?Other sub-themes are'Creative Neighbourhood Skills','The Art of Gathering Environmental Data' also 'Virtuality/Social Identity'. We areCALLING OUT proposals for presentations as well as...

Camp Pixelache 2012 took place 11 & 12 May at Arbis, where over 100 guests enjoyed the event's laid back atmosphere combined with intense presentations & discussions. Saturday 12 May begun with the scheduling of the day by the participants. In between the different open sessions which they also facilitated, Marc Garrett, Jennifer Gabrys, Pedro Soler and Owen Kelly gave plenary presentations under their respective topics. In the course of day over 40 individual presentations took place, accompanied by vivid discussions. Later in the evening, the audiovisual installation Prometheus...

Open Design demo stalls are exhibited at Arbis during Camp Pixelache on Saturday 12 May 12:30 – 19:00, with several interesting projects. Helsinki Hacklab Reactionists present their Chernobyl simulator and RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture from Latvia presents TALK TO ME, a human-plant communication interface for exploring relational aesthetics in these hybrid environments.Other demos include for example the results of Electronic Embroidery workshop held in March and Animation App, a rolling "tiny film festival" of the animations that have been made by audience during the exhibition!...